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		<title>Urgency. And candor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent major education summit in Albany, NY, equitable funding and pre-kindergarten were hailed as cures for inadequate progress in achieving academic excellence.  Never mind that 100% of NY schools already spend more per pupil than the national average--most exceeding the national average by more than 40%.  Never mind that the effects of kindergarten, let alone pre-k, disappear by the end of 2nd grade and that our 4th-graders do well on international tests while our high-schoolers do poorly.  The pathway to greater prosperity is more money and pre-k.  No need to retool schools by making more effective use of technology.

What passes for education leadership today is deplorably unimaginative, anachronistic and the living embodiment of absurdity. The elixirs and potions offered as cures appeal only to the ignorant and the desperate. They ought to be banned by the FDA.]]></description>
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		<title>A blueprint for education reform &#8212; NOT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I'd like to know is how newspapers can stay in business by repeatedly printing articles on how to reform public schools that simply recycle the failed or unproductive ideas of the past.  People must be reading the sports section because what passes for smart thinking about school reform is a lot less about thinking and a lot more about parroting.  In this article, I talk about what real school reform <i>is</i>, and <i>is <b>not</b></i>.]]></description>
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